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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants would like to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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